The Guardian: Lessons from the bloody war on spam
Cory Doctorow recaps the progression of the war on spam, and compares it to the continuing failures of the war on copyright infringement.
CommentsTeens herald the death of email
Yet another article tracking the diversification of online messaging platforms yet describing it as the impending doom of email.
Personally, I think email became a victim of its own success and was used for lots of purposes that it didn’t really suit well. And now that there are other platforms that suit those other purposes better, email is returning to the uses for which it is best suited.
Now if only we could get everyone to actually move to those other platforms instead of insisting that their ill-suited use of email is a valid edge case that we have to take into account whenever we introduce something new….
CommentsCircleID: Anti-Phishing and Hong Kong
James Seng doesn’t like the APWG’s request for TLD registries to work with them to take down phishing sites, so he suggests an alternative based on HKIRC’s existing process.
CommentsGetting Email Delivered: How the Email Deliverability Accreditation and Reputation Industry is Eating Itself Alive
Anne Mitchell explains that her “…expectations for honourable behaviour among our colleagues and competitors are not always met,” giving a few examples of questionable claims made by questionable salespeople.
All of this just confuses people who truly do need help — and that’s a damn shame. But there aren’t any independent testing services with enough clue to do real testing, so some companies in the email industry continue to get away with obviously false claims.
CommentsSky News: Crackdown On Junk Mail Email Spam And Cold Calling Proposed
UK Information Commissioner report “…recommends making it easier for the public to keep track of who holds personal information about them…” and “…massive fines against companies or government bodies which breach privacy rules.”
CommentsARF in relation to the AOL FBL
On the open abuse-feedback-report discussion list, Steve Atkins explains (again) the best practices for dealing with AOL’s policy of redacting the recipient address in feedback loop messages, and why it’s not an ARF standards issue.
CommentsMailChimp: Warning signs your client is spamming
The folks at MailChimp have published a wonderful guide for how to tell, as an ESP or marketing agency or similar, whether your client’s bad practices are going to ruin your business.
CommentsCircleID: An Astonishing Collaboration
An obviously relieved Dan Kaminsky describes the recent collaborative process to fix a big DNS bug before any bad guys could discover it.
Have you updated your nameserver software in the last few weeks? If not, it’s time. Dan writes:
- It’s a bug in many platforms
- It’s the exact same bug in many platforms (design bugs, they are a pain)
- After an enormous and secret effort, we’ve got fixes for all major platforms, all out on the same day.
- This has not happened before. Everything is genuinely under control.
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